Gentle Reader,
I direct your Attention to
The Steampunk's Guide to the Apocalypse, a Masterful work on surviving the Horrors of the Apocalypse in true Steampunk fashion; to wit, using the Common Items found in any industrialized City (although it makes mention of Alternatives, such as Town and rural Livelihood). Discussion of the uses for bulletproof Glass, for example, seemed inspired, and certainly not found in ordinary Texts on the subject.
The table of Contents:
Chapter One: Whither & Weather
Chapter Two: The Accumulation, Filtration, and Storage of Water
Chapter Three: Assessing the Bounty of Nature and Ruin
Chapter Four: Scoundrels, and Defense therefrom
Chapter Five: A brief Introduction to Contagion
There are Appendices containing Survival Scenarios and Resources for further Reading.
Two types of Illustrations are used in this Tome. The chapter Illustrations are quite finely Drawn and Artistic (in the Steampunk Style), while those depicting the Making of Tools, household Items (including how to make a Bandsaw powered by Foot!) are more simply Drawn, no more than line Sketches.
There are too many Valuable Items in this booklet to list Fully, with many not seen by this Reviewer in any other Text. I found the Instructions for constructing a Trebuchet most Amusing.
Be advised that some few of the Methods and Items described are not permissible for Use in a Lawful Nation. Such distressing Subjects may be skipped over easily, due to the excellent Headings dotting each Page.
The only Drawbacks I see to this Text are: one, the short length, which by Necessity lead to a Superficial Treatment of many subjects, but one could always Study Further such subjects of interest; two, the lack of an Index.
Overall, I found this a Work both entertaining and Informative.
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